Asset Performance Management

Improve the reliability of your assets with innovative maintenance strategies

Maintenance is vital to a company’s development and success. An innovative maintenance strategy exhausts all available technological possibilities and related potentials as well as their holistic integration into the process landscape.

Conventional maintenance strategies are firmly established, and they will continue to play a role in the future. However, conventional maintenance concepts do not fully meet the needs of today’s asset intensive industries: they bind capital and expend resources to a high degree. Due to an increase in the networking capabilities of machines and the increasing importance of IoT as well as the provision of data, innovative maintenance strategies are gaining significant importance.

Resource-conserving, efficient, fail-safe and high quality are words to describe innovative maintenance strategies in asset intensive industries. The primary focus is on the sensible and efficient use of modern technologies as well as the knowledge hidden in technical systems (in the form of collected data and information). Digitalization has generated novel possibilities for the maintenance of machines, devices and complete production lines, and it permits further process integration in internal and cross-company networks.

Recurrent topics within the process industry are the reliability of plants, data and processes, the digital transformation and mobilization of processes, asset life cycle management (from planning to construction and operation, re-powering and ultimately to the dismantling of the plant) and the management of spare parts.

Maintenance & Asset Performance

By combining our consulting expertise in the development and implementation of adequate maintenance processes and independent technologies as well as their operational implementation, we are able to offer our customers in the chemical industry comprehensive solutions with the following focal points:

BearingPoint’s comprehensive advisory approach is based on the following four factors:

Strategy

Organization

Processes

Tools/ IT

How BearingPoint adds value:

We help clients achieve maintenance excellence based on strong improvement levers, including:

Reliability: We help you to leverage your equipment knowledge within the company to determine the right strategy to apply.

Flexibilty: We develop appropriate business rules to optimize the completion of scheduled tasks and to deal with random breakdowns.

Balance: Conflicting goals between engineering, production, purchasing and maintenance performance need to be balanced. We adopt an approach based on the total cost of ownership (TCO) during asset life cycle phases.

Added value: We encourage the mindset of maintenance as an added-value service to evolve within the company, with the objective of ensuring the expected equipment availability.